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The medical treatment of this injury is similar to those of a human bite, but may also involve damage of the underlying tendons. [4] These injuries should be managed as other human bites: wound irrigation and antibiotics are essential as human saliva can contain a number of bacteria. [5]
Eikenella corrodens is a Gram-negative facultative anaerobic bacillus that can cause severe invasive disease in humans. [1] It was first identified by M. Eiken in 1958, who called it Bacteroides corrodens. [2] E. corrodens is a rare pericarditis associated pathogen. [3]
Bites often result in serious puncture wounds, avulsion injuries, fractures, hemorrhages, infections, envenomation, and death. [4] In modern human societies, dog bites are the most common type of bite, with children being the most common victims and faces being the most common target. [5]
Human bite infections often contain Eikenella spp. and animal bites harbor Pasteurella multocida in addition to oral flora. Anaerobes infections are often polymicrobial in nature, and sometimes (i.e. decubitus ulcers, diabetic foot ulcer) they are complicated by bacteremia and/or osteomyelitis. [41]
A centipede bite is an injury resulting from the action of a centipede's forcipules, stinger-like appendages that pierce the skin and inject venom into the wound. Such a wound is not strictly speaking a bite , as the forcipules are a modified first pair of legs rather than true mouthparts .
Blisters in particular can cause a feeling of desire to pull or bite off the affected skin and nails (since the skin is dead, thus easily pulled off), which could be detrimental, causing infection. Another disorder, known as excoriation disorder, the repetitive action of uncontrollably picking at one's skin, can sometimes accompany dermatophagia.
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